The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-03-05

| All the Fifth avenue folks adopted tht
English caper We called at Slopoyer''
and the Snappipgton- Gooseneck'
and the Batterleys-C akely's, and tht
women at each place came down in
morning wrappers, yawning and rub
bling their eyes, and pretending to have
forgotten all about New Years. They
all averred they had been so overcome
with the old English Christmas festivi
ties, the yule log, carols, boar's head,
miracle play and mistletoe. You
know that they had quite forgotten the
American custom of receiving on New
Years. "Really," said Slopover, ats
quite absurd, isn't it to forget it, but !
did"
Chick said these girls kept this up
all day.
We met the primeval coterie Of the
Union club coming down the avenue
on big stone truck drawn by yoke
of oxen. 1t gave me quite thrill to
see their independence of the conven-
tional thing, il was such a manly cut,
away from the frippcry Of custom. ]
asked Gooseneck atlerward if the strain
of sitting on that truck had not tested
his endurance, aud he said no, a man
who had been going to the Metropoli-
tan opera house all winter laughed at
that kind of nonsense.
do think, however, the Lambs club
fellows carried the unconventional
thing toofar whenthey hireda coal cart,
and got the driver to dump them all
out on Slopover's sidewalk like a ton
of anthracite.
But when there is such strong pro
test against the conventional thing
there is apt to be little extravaganza
at first.
The girls of Heber Newtons church
all insisted on our signing a paper, pro
testing against the punishment of
women for crime. They believed that
it was unmanly.
AT Goody Gainsborough's we struck
the anti.wear-birds-on your-bonnet gang
and had to sign their paper. too.
Chick told me aftcrword that he never
wore bird on his hat in his life. But
he's great cock-hghter all the same.
At the Apolinarusse We encountered
the prohibition squeeze and had to
have our breaths examined by big
footman before we could get in, and
Chick, who had taken some la mode
at the club with allspice in it, came
very near being shut out.
You've no idea what a nuisance il
was to make calls this year Every
body seemed to be sick of the conven.
tlonal thing. At Courtlandt Palmer's
we met some agnostic girls, and as
soon as Chick told them about the
paper at Heber Newton's they all
laughed at thesentimentality ofthe idea
that furnishing women for crime was
unmanly, and then got out paper on
probation, and commenced to use In
gersoll's argument that God wouldn't
punish women in the next world be-
cause it would be ungallant.
II must have been four o'clock be-
fore the welcome portal Of Chicks
house came In sight. think it touch
ed me, for heard him murmur there's
no place like home.
] suppose every square nan with
society wife who comes home to his
own castle every night, gives way once
a year to tender desire to see bis own
wife, and / am sure nothing can be
more bea tiful on the dawning new
year than TO call on her.
We found the parlor full of swell
people. We did a great deal of gen
eral bowiug without any introductions,
ard Chick whispered to me:
"Old boy, which is my wife2 Hang
me if remember her The paper
said she was slashed."
"Be calm" | said. "Don't betray
your emotion. Give me little time
and III introduce you" So after some
d plomacy / got introduced to my own
wife, and she pointed out Mrs. Chick
enhalter Then / called Chick over
End presented him.
DO you know there was something
SO touching and beautiful in the bring
ing OF two people together who lived
10 the same house without seeing each
other, that think a number of the
vain men of the world who were pres
. were moved by it.
"Do you know" said Wolloston to
me, "lhat it's the freshest thing I've
seen, and Pm going to call on my own
wife next New Years."
| quite agreed with him, for the
short conversation ! had with the part
her of my joys convinced me that a
man should make his own wifes ac-
luainlance at least once year.
She was SO polite. She said she had
eft the children all well, and she in
'ited me to call on her again when | |
lad the opportunity.
Chick said his wife was equally
polite. She spoke of the weather with |
ieep earnestness, and something of
he old thrill was in her tones |
IS she asked him if he had enioyed
'ood health He was deeply impress